http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/ en-us Copyright 2010 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:00:01 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dear Friends, This is my final entry for the Horse Race Blog here at RealClearPolitics. Starting later this week, I will begin work at The Weekly Standard. I'd like to thank John McIntyre and Tom Bevan for the opportunity to... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/farewell.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/farewell.html About This Blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:00:01 -0600 This Politico piece by Jim VandeHei, Alex Isenstadt, and Mike Allen got a lot of play last week: Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/health_care_reform_has_endange_1.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/health_care_reform_has_endange_1.html Congress Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:37 -0600 Reid Wilson, our former colleague and now the editor-in-chief of the Hotline On Call, had an interesting column today explaining "why Democrats will keep the House." He offers four reasons. (1) Democrats have so far raised more money. (2) Money... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/will_money_save_the_democrats.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/will_money_save_the_democrats.html 2010 Congressional Election - The House Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:58:28 -0600 Ever since the Democrats failed to get the public option through the Senate, liberals have been advocating the effective elimination of the filibuster. As I have written before, I am deeply opposed to changes in the filibuster. Its use has... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/democrats_keep_the_filibuster.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/democrats_keep_the_filibuster.html Congress Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:19 -0600 There is a theory among some liberal commentators that figures that Obama's political position is due not to his own mistakes, but rather to macropolitical forces that are outside his control. Recently, my colleague Sean Trende argued that the political... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/is_the_economy_obamas_only_pro.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/is_the_economy_obamas_only_pro.html Presidency Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:07:24 -0600 Robert Reich had a thought-provoking piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Unfortunately, his argument begins to fall apart two thirds of the way through. Reich argues: A stimulus too small to significantly reduce unemployment, a TARP that didn't trickle... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/what_went_wrong_with_obama.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/08/what_went_wrong_with_obama.html Presidency Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:05 -0600 When Barack Obama burst onto the national scene in early 2007, I was fascinated by his public relations strategy. As a candidate, his facility with the arts of public communication vastly outstripped John McCain's (and Hillary Clinton's, for that matter),... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/obamas_vanity_is_a_liability_f.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/obamas_vanity_is_a_liability_f.html Presidency Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:01 -0600 Today, Gallup released its results of partisan identification in the 50 states. The results are, as usual, interesting. This map does not correspond with the national presidential map terribly well, in that it underestimates Republican electoral strength. Why is this?... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/note_on_gallups_party_id_map.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/note_on_gallups_party_id_map.html Polling/Public Opinion Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:28:52 -0600 Tucker Carlson has this to say about the title question: We're not contesting the right of anyone, journalist or not, to have political opinions. (I, for one, have made a pretty good living expressing mine.) What we object to is... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/whats_so_bad_about_the_journol_1.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/whats_so_bad_about_the_journol_1.html Media Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:58:03 -0600 What I'd like to do in this piece is offer you a sense of how voters will come to their congressional vote choices in November, and in so doing give you an impression of how various factors will affect the... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/a_primer_on_the_2010_house_mid.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/a_primer_on_the_2010_house_mid.html 2010 Congressional Election - The House Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:57 -0600 This week, Gallup's "generic ballot" number - which asks people if they plan to support a generic Republican or Democrat in the upcoming congressional elections - found a big boost for the Democrats, who bounced out to a 6-point lead.... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/gallups_bouncing_ball_1.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/gallups_bouncing_ball_1.html Polling/Public Opinion Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:06:25 -0600 Abraham Lincoln's assassination was a national tragedy, and it was also a partisan calamity of the first degree. The Republicans had transformed themselves into the "Union Party" during the Civil War; to hold together their broad pro-war coalition, they nominated... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/michael_steele_makes_the_case_1.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/07/michael_steele_makes_the_case_1.html Party System Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:56:42 -0600 Mike Allen broke this astounding bit of news yesterday: Phil Schiliro, the White House congressional liaison, has told the Senate to aim to take up an energy bill the week of July 12, after the July 4 break (and after... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/06/the_pulpit_of_a_bully_1.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/06/the_pulpit_of_a_bully_1.html Presidency Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:25:53 -0600 Barack Obama has been compared to a lot of Presidents. Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, even George W. Bush. But no intrepid analyst has ever - so far as I know - dared to compare the 44th... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/06/obama_gives_new_meaning_to_big.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/06/obama_gives_new_meaning_to_big.html Presidency Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:10:06 -0600 Politico's Jonathan Martin and Charles Mahtesian write this about the special election in PA-12: All the evidence pointing to monster Republican House gains this fall--the Scott Brown upset win in Massachusetts, the scary polling numbers in once-safely Democratic districts, the... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/05/is_pa12_a_bellwether.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/05/is_pa12_a_bellwether.html 2010 Congressional Election - The House Wed, 19 May 2010 11:24:13 -0600